stone
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
How often you will meet it
Rank 727 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 25,771 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.012% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter also: rock he threw a rock at me
- building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose he wanted a special stone to mark the site
- material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust also: rock that mountain is solid rockstone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries
- a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry also: gem, gemstone he had the gem set in a ring for his wifeshe had jewels made of all the rarest stones
- an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed also: pit, endocarp you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
stone in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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He will give thee a ring with a philosopher's stone in it.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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Posses went in every direction, and not a stone was left unturned.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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A crackling twig or a loose stone struck by a foot might have warned him.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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The walls of the ancient fortress were built of enormous blocks of stone fitted together without cement.
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) · O. J. [Annotator] Stevenson · Chapter 1
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Suddenly she flashed to the window and threw it open and beat on the stone sill and dragged her hands across it.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1